Bebop
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So I took my CC class this weekend the class was good and I like the instructors but I have to disagree with something he said. Like a lot of the other stories I have heard when it comes to OC a lot of CC instructors are against it sometimes for good reasons (ie. tactical advantage) and other maybe because if everyone OC'ed it would put them out of business, or at least drastically decrease there client base. Anyway my gripe with him was that he said that Colorado is not a true open carry state unlike New Mexico and others who's law tells them that they can open carry. I am sure we here are all aware that Colorado doesn't have a law that bands OC which is what makes it legal.My gripe is with his thinking that New Mexico's law is a true open carry and in my opinion Colorado's law is a true open carry state in the fact that the state does not tell us that we can. Colorado seems to recognize our natural right to carry, or they at least doesn't care enough to take it away. To me that is what a right is not the state or federal governments giving us permission, that is a privilege and to me the more a government says what a person can do the less freedom we have. His defense was that the Colorado law has no teeth which may be a valid pointwiththe waytoday’s courts are. I just don't feel that when we are supposed to be in the land of the free that we need to have permission from our government to do something, and on this point any way I think the Colorado government understands that right. I wanted to see what other peoples opinions are orif Iam just aloan nut:celebrate.
So I took my CC class this weekend the class was good and I like the instructors but I have to disagree with something he said. Like a lot of the other stories I have heard when it comes to OC a lot of CC instructors are against it sometimes for good reasons (ie. tactical advantage) and other maybe because if everyone OC'ed it would put them out of business, or at least drastically decrease there client base. Anyway my gripe with him was that he said that Colorado is not a true open carry state unlike New Mexico and others who's law tells them that they can open carry. I am sure we here are all aware that Colorado doesn't have a law that bands OC which is what makes it legal.My gripe is with his thinking that New Mexico's law is a true open carry and in my opinion Colorado's law is a true open carry state in the fact that the state does not tell us that we can. Colorado seems to recognize our natural right to carry, or they at least doesn't care enough to take it away. To me that is what a right is not the state or federal governments giving us permission, that is a privilege and to me the more a government says what a person can do the less freedom we have. His defense was that the Colorado law has no teeth which may be a valid pointwiththe waytoday’s courts are. I just don't feel that when we are supposed to be in the land of the free that we need to have permission from our government to do something, and on this point any way I think the Colorado government understands that right. I wanted to see what other peoples opinions are orif Iam just aloan nut:celebrate.